mod parent up. if unexplained phenomena take place at military instalations, there are good reasons the details aren't given to the public. on the other hand, the public is only hearing "something I can't talk about happened in this place I can't talk about. you gotta believe me!"; even though we understand you can't talk about it because you only knew the minimum required to do your job, it's difficult.
actually, transparent debris in a crash (even for buildings in earthquakes) is probably the best thing that could come out of this, because you could see where people are. I do have to admint, this is the most fictional science fictiony commercial I've heard in a while.
just tweak arXiv so that reviews of posted articles are linked to in the abstract page. or something like that. why the need for anonymous reviewers? as long as the discussion is objective and to the point, there's no need for anonymity. and we are far past the point where it costs money to attach comments to an article...
quote from one of the videos: "no jumping". obviously, the things are based on moving within some strict parameters. however, I think they can be constructed so that it's easy to get out of them (if you need them). until they have the direct to brain interface available...
but it's kind of similar to the feeling I have when I see that normal people have morality out of fear from some god(s) rather than understanding (they do what their priest/whatever tells them to do, they don't try to understand why they should do a certain something).
I would like people to understand more about what they are doing. I would like a paris hilton like person to go to space because they are excited at the prospect of moon/mars colonies, not because "everybody important is doing it".
It's a very complicated situation, and a very complex set of feelings. I wanted to say it anyway: human society is still dependent on a few people doing "crazy" things for progress in some directions, and I would like the need for progress to be understood by all.
you're right. but it's my impression that we are now around a tipping point when improvements to the various technologies are (will be) made by for-profit companies, as opposed to state funded agencies. think about automobiles: the first people to drive them were their inventors, but what followed was a period of novelty status, up to the point where the technology improved enough so that more people could afford them. In fact, I think the same thing is happening with electric cars now (actually, electric car batteries).
like a lot of things, getting off the planet will start off as an exotic fad for the ridiculously rich. as a scientist, I'm disgusted... but it's probably the only realistic option for progress on this front.
suppose someone understands people's emotions and can use them to their advantage. that doesn't mean they are controlled by their emotions... on the contrary. and another thing: the best leaders are those that have good advisors, and listen to those advisors. high levels of testosterone will probably lead you to do things your own way, to prove yourself. from an evolutionary perspective, this makes sense: the hormone is there to push everyone to do their own thing, so females can pick the winners. hopefully, human society has evolved beyond the point where we need the other guys to fail so that we can succeed.
I don't think you understood what I was trying to say. there is a difference between news/forums filtering and search filtering.
trying to explain it, I realize it's pretty complicated. the point is this: I searched for "tianmen square" (complicated spelling), and the first google result was "Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia --- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, referred to in much of the world as the Tiananmen Square massacre and in the People's Republic of China...." . If you do this in China, I understood that you get some nice pictures and nothing about any protest.
If you are searching actively for something related to a religion, please go ahead and find a specialized search engine, but if you're gonna do that for all searches, you're an idiot.
there. i said it. millions of people around the world are suffering because they don't have access to information that is freely available on the internet, and still there are idiots out there who want to have their search results filtered.
ok, you don't wanna see a naked lady by accident. I get it. there's tons of things on the internet that I personally don't want to ever see (and I would do my best to keep children from seeing them). but if you don't want to hear what people with other convictions have to say in reasonable scenarios, then I say you're an idiot.
related to your last question. first of all, you get votes for shouting and pointing fingers, not for reasonable arguments. second: in the past, the big, easy to get crimes were targeted. as time passes, the crimes that can still be comitted are much "better", and harder to catch, so more and more effort (read as invasive and offensive) is needed. ultimately, the best way to fight crime is to put everyone in solitary confinement:)
actually, any intelligent being will learn to deceive by itself (check this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10119297, on how children's lies are correlated to their intelligence). it's an integral part of competing in some forms of games and warfare, but it's also important for education and fun (think of a magician's act, and realize that being faced with an apparent paradox makes learning about what truly happened a lot more exciting).
how long before this evolves into something that can be used (after training the machine with direct interogation) to steal secrets from people's minds?
it's weird how easily you can say "piracy" and mean "copyright infringement", when you use words like murder or rape in the same phrase. It just goes to show that rather than the copyright owners succeeding in making the sharers look bad, the meaning of the word "pirate" changed.
yes, but it's one of those new digital buttons that don't work when you get the equivalent of a blue screen. and they have an atomic power source, so you can't unplug them. if you were a general, I could tell you more.
I realize we're having fun, but here it goes: what you do is you talk to a few people, and when you're satisfied that they are rational like you are rational, you can choose to trust them. they learn about some things, you learn about other things, and together you "know" more. yes, it is faith in your peers, but if we can't trust our peers we might as well go live in caves again, because by ourselves we're far too weak to think about understanding the universe.
on topic: what Hawking says is a bit stupid: you can't reasonably talk about a cause for the beginning of the universe, with or without physics / with or without the help of beings outside the universe. If something is outside the known universe, then you can't observe it from inside (otherwise, you couldn't call it outside). In terms of programming, if you have a good virtual machine, than the 80's game you're playing won't know about your new shiny laptop, and it shouldn't really care about it. So, as much respect as I have for Stephen Hawking: you can't prove or disprove the existence of gods. Yes, you can prove that models of the universe are selfconsistent (I don't think we did that yet anyway), and you can show that it is very likely a certain model completely describes the universe; however, even a selfconsistent universe can be the plaything of a few gods.
anyway, the fact that you see the irony means you're on the good track so far. when you think you understand, it means you forgot something important along the way.
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mod parent up. if unexplained phenomena take place at military instalations, there are good reasons the details aren't given to the public.
on the other hand, the public is only hearing "something I can't talk about happened in this place I can't talk about. you gotta believe me!"; even though we understand you can't talk about it because you only knew the minimum required to do your job, it's difficult.
actually, transparent debris in a crash (even for buildings in earthquakes) is probably the best thing that could come out of this, because you could see where people are.
I do have to admint, this is the most fictional science fictiony commercial I've heard in a while.
using math in your everyday life?! that is like so uncool like.
just tweak arXiv so that reviews of posted articles are linked to in the abstract page. or something like that. why the need for anonymous reviewers? as long as the discussion is objective and to the point, there's no need for anonymity. and we are far past the point where it costs money to attach comments to an article...
quote from one of the videos: "no jumping". obviously, the things are based on moving within some strict parameters.
however, I think they can be constructed so that it's easy to get out of them (if you need them). until they have the direct to brain interface available...
ok, disgust is a strong word.
but it's kind of similar to the feeling I have when I see that normal people have morality out of fear from some god(s) rather than understanding (they do what their priest/whatever tells them to do, they don't try to understand why they should do a certain something).
I would like people to understand more about what they are doing. I would like a paris hilton like person to go to space because they are excited at the prospect of moon/mars colonies, not because "everybody important is doing it".
It's a very complicated situation, and a very complex set of feelings. I wanted to say it anyway: human society is still dependent on a few people doing "crazy" things for progress in some directions, and I would like the need for progress to be understood by all.
you're right. but it's my impression that we are now around a tipping point when improvements to the various technologies are (will be) made by for-profit companies, as opposed to state funded agencies.
think about automobiles: the first people to drive them were their inventors, but what followed was a period of novelty status, up to the point where the technology improved enough so that more people could afford them. In fact, I think the same thing is happening with electric cars now (actually, electric car batteries).
like a lot of things, getting off the planet will start off as an exotic fad for the ridiculously rich. as a scientist, I'm disgusted... but it's probably the only realistic option for progress on this front.
suppose someone understands people's emotions and can use them to their advantage. that doesn't mean they are controlled by their emotions... on the contrary.
and another thing: the best leaders are those that have good advisors, and listen to those advisors. high levels of testosterone will probably lead you to do things your own way, to prove yourself. from an evolutionary perspective, this makes sense: the hormone is there to push everyone to do their own thing, so females can pick the winners.
hopefully, human society has evolved beyond the point where we need the other guys to fail so that we can succeed.
no, no, NO! it's not politically correct to call politicians that.
then I'd need a 2 meter keyboard.
I don't think you understood what I was trying to say.
there is a difference between news/forums filtering and search filtering.
trying to explain it, I realize it's pretty complicated. the point is this: I searched for "tianmen square" (complicated spelling), and the first google result was "Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia --- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, referred to in much of the world as the Tiananmen Square massacre and in the People's Republic of China ...." . If you do this in China, I understood that you get some nice pictures and nothing about any protest.
If you are searching actively for something related to a religion, please go ahead and find a specialized search engine, but if you're gonna do that for all searches, you're an idiot.
there. i said it.
millions of people around the world are suffering because they don't have access to information that is freely available on the internet, and still there are idiots out there who want to have their search results filtered.
ok, you don't wanna see a naked lady by accident. I get it. there's tons of things on the internet that I personally don't want to ever see (and I would do my best to keep children from seeing them). but if you don't want to hear what people with other convictions have to say in reasonable scenarios, then I say you're an idiot.
go ahead. sick your gdodg on me.
related to your last question. first of all, you get votes for shouting and pointing fingers, not for reasonable arguments. :)
second: in the past, the big, easy to get crimes were targeted. as time passes, the crimes that can still be comitted are much "better", and harder to catch, so more and more effort (read as invasive and offensive) is needed. ultimately, the best way to fight crime is to put everyone in solitary confinement
actually, any intelligent being will learn to deceive by itself (check this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10119297, on how children's lies are correlated to their intelligence). it's an integral part of competing in some forms of games and warfare, but it's also important for education and fun (think of a magician's act, and realize that being faced with an apparent paradox makes learning about what truly happened a lot more exciting).
sorry about the flamebait. posting to repair stupid moderation.
how long before this evolves into something that can be used (after training the machine with direct interogation) to steal secrets from people's minds?
I mean... the movie just came out this summer.
I don't trust you. Give me your credit card number, so that I can check you're indeed rich :)
it's weird how easily you can say "piracy" and mean "copyright infringement", when you use words like murder or rape in the same phrase. It just goes to show that rather than the copyright owners succeeding in making the sharers look bad, the meaning of the word "pirate" changed.
and it works fine in belgium too. I think the idea was to get it slashdotted, but they seem to have failed.
yes, but it's one of those new digital buttons that don't work when you get the equivalent of a blue screen. and they have an atomic power source, so you can't unplug them. if you were a general, I could tell you more.
this is not interesting, it's stupid. a woman posting stuff like this would have problems too. I doubt the parent is telling the truth.
I realize we're having fun, but here it goes: what you do is you talk to a few people, and when you're satisfied that they are rational like you are rational, you can choose to trust them. they learn about some things, you learn about other things, and together you "know" more. yes, it is faith in your peers, but if we can't trust our peers we might as well go live in caves again, because by ourselves we're far too weak to think about understanding the universe.
on topic: what Hawking says is a bit stupid: you can't reasonably talk about a cause for the beginning of the universe, with or without physics / with or without the help of beings outside the universe. If something is outside the known universe, then you can't observe it from inside (otherwise, you couldn't call it outside).
In terms of programming, if you have a good virtual machine, than the 80's game you're playing won't know about your new shiny laptop, and it shouldn't really care about it.
So, as much respect as I have for Stephen Hawking: you can't prove or disprove the existence of gods. Yes, you can prove that models of the universe are selfconsistent (I don't think we did that yet anyway), and you can show that it is very likely a certain model completely describes the universe; however, even a selfconsistent universe can be the plaything of a few gods.
anyway, the fact that you see the irony means you're on the good track so far. when you think you understand, it means you forgot something important along the way.
yes, but is it a she turtle or a he turtle?
someone was upset by certain comments and they are sending us a message.